Queerness as Map & Medicine

Downloadable zine

Queerness as Map & Medicine shows how queerness is more than a quality of sex, gender and sexual orientation. It is a name for the vital force that refuses colonial separations to promote thriving life and ecological interbeing. This zine introduces four ‘queer medicines,’ or ways that queerness helps us center ancient wisdoms of living, loving and dying well in our spiritual-political practices and relations.

booklet version

A version that you can print out and fold into a booklet. Please note that the pages in this version are not in linear order. To download a version that you can read online, choose the ‘online version’ below.

online version

A version that you can read online. Please note that the pages in this version are in linear order. To download a version that you can print out, fold and read as a booklet, choose the ‘booklet version’ above.

Past events

  • Introducing the House of Yin: Restoring, Resting, Centering Relationship

    10 December 2024

    A session introducing the House of Yin, SSoMA’s liberatory community-learning home for reflective and relationship-grounded practitioners who want to continue to learn and fortify the Yin. In these hyper-heated, hyper-consuming, and violent social and political times, a deep and urgent call for balance compels us to draw down, root, slow down, embrace the darkness, find rest in a myriad of ways, and focus on the expansiveness of relationship in all forms.

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  • Mapping Queerness as Spiritual-Political Medicine

    13 March 2024

    A webinar dedicated to considering how queerness is, and always has been in many wisdom traditions. a spiritual, political and ecological affair. How is mapping queerness a spiritual-political-ecological medicine for promoting thriving life and treating the roots and wounds of colonial separation? How are we accountable to the historical and ongoing work of Indigenous communities and community of color communities who have been moving with queer ecological principles and relationship?

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  • Organizing Beyond Binaries: Centering Spiritual-Political Approaches

    8 November 2022

    A webinar exploring how principles of queer relationship, nonbinariness, inseparability and ‘speaking to the whole(s)’ of our complex reality inform our work to center the collective health and wellbeing of all living systems, and what we mean when we evoke a spiritual-political sensibility. How can collective care honor the queer realities of inseparability and reciprocity in this time of compound ecological, social and spiritual crisis?

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  • Conversations in the House of Yin

    13 January 2025

    An informal conversation following Restoring, Resting, Centering Relationship, to saturate in and reflect on the ideas from the session.

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  • Tao Te Ching Book Study Series

    March 2025

    A collective study of Ursula Le Guin’s rendition of the Tao Te Ching, exploring how the Yin thrives within us through our relations and everyday work in the world.

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  • Embodying Yin Practices in Our Everyday Lives

    1 March 2025

    Even in times of crisis movement, ease, and balance are innate to our bodies. In a time of wildfires, unchecked power, diminishing rights, and growing fear, how do we tap into the power of a river, the resistance of deep roots, the resources of what is underground?

    We need yin force not only for our individual frayed and burned out nervous systems, for our own survival, but to meet dominant and destructive forces with deep and lasting resistance.  How do we take care and nourish ourselves in a time when we must take action because we can't afford not to? 

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